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L. Chitayat| Photo: Zeno Fox Age: 20 >> PhD student at MIT Even before she turned 20, Liyam Chitayat began her doctorate at MIT, one of the leading academic research institutions in the US and the world, and won the Hertz Award for Research Excellence – the most prestigious scholarship for a doctorate in the…

Professor Ernest Fraenkel has decoded fundamental aspects of Huntington’s disease and glioblastoma, and is now using computation to better understand amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. At a time in which scientific research is increasingly cross-disciplinary, Ernest Fraenkel, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering, stands out as both…

Tamara Broderick uses statistical approaches to understand and quantify the uncertainty that can affect study results.   Tamara Broderick first set foot on MIT’s campus when she was a high school student, as a participant in the inaugural Women’s Technology Program. The monthlong summer academic experience gives young women a hands-on introduction to engineering and…